I have it just like you said it whould be and when I click ecrypt it says
unable to encrypt the drive and the red circle with an X in there appears
after I click the encrypt button. I'm thinking this has something to do
with
the fact I am running RAID and split the RAID array array into two
volumes?
I dunno, just some more insight into it. I got it to work on my laptop
that's running one SATA drive with Vista Ultimate 32-bit Beta 2. But
thanks
so far...Sooner or later we'll slay the dragon, lol.
:
A typical functioning setup is described in
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/c61f2a12-8ae6-4957-b031-97b4d762cf31.mspx
The keys to getting this to work is, from the perspective of the Vista
OS,
The Vista OS *IS NOT* on the/an active partition. Determine this by
running
"diskmgmt.msc" and verifying that the status for the Vista partition
says:
Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump)
and not
Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump)
The "System" indicates that it uses "BOOTMGR" and related files from the
same partition during boot. The key to BitLocker being functional is that
BOOTMGR, and all files that BOOTMGR accesses (under Boot directory) lives
on
a different partition then the Vista OS. For Beta 2, if these are on the
same partition, its a pain to get things reconfigured after the fact.
We're
working on a solution for RC1 to fix that.
For me personally, when configuring dual-boot XP/Vista, one of the
techniques I do is the following:
(1) Install XP first. During installing of XP, allocate only the first
half
of the disk space to XP, leaving the second half of the disk as "unused
space". After install, I allocate the remaining space a primary basic
partition. Primary in this case means the location of the partition is
stored in the MBR.
(2) Install Vista second, allowing it to use the second primary
partition.
There are many ways to get here, but the upshot is that there is a
primary
partition marked "active", and it is not the partition that Vista is
being
installed to.
Let me know if this helps or not.
-
Jamie Hunter [MS]
message
Both are formatted with NTFS and both are the same size, but in a
dual-boot
environment. Both partitions are primary drives for their OS's. Any
hep
is
appreaciated and thanks thus far!!
:
How are your 2 volumes configured?
Is the system partition (the one containing bootmgr) different to the
OS
partition (the one containing the Windows directory) ?
Thanks
-
Jamie Hunter [MS]
message
Ok here's a question. So I have my 2 volumes and USB card and all
stoked
to
do the bit locker drive encryption deal. I go through the setup and
store
my
key on my USB card and then proceed to start encrypting my drive and
it
says
it can't. Is this because I am running RAID? If that's the case I
can
live
without bit encryption, I've done it for the bast 6 years running
RAID.
If
not, what's the problem? Any ideas? It's not hugely important to
me,
but
hey if I can use it and make things more secure I'm all for it.
:
BitLocker was not turned on. Thanks for the suggestion though. I
haven't
seen
this pop-up in the past few restarts. Knock on wood.
-Randy
:
This is because BitLocker is probably turned on. Change this by
going
through the Start pearl, Control Panel, then BitLocker Drive
Enryption -
turn it off, then restart.
See if that helps
)
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of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we
cleared
that up!
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After logging I get a system tray "balloon" pop-up prompting me
to
back up
my
file encryption key or else I could lose all encrypted data.
First of all, I wasn't aware I had anything encrypted. Second,
when I
do
oblige the prompt it takes me to the Certificate Export Wizard
where
I'm
then
asked to specify a file name I want to export. The only problem
is
I
have
no
idea what file I want to export even if I wanted to export any
at
all.
What's
going on? I feel like I should back something up rather than
ignore
the
pop-up but I just don't get it!
Please help.
